Annual Reports

A center for social justice movements

The Center for Community Change acts as a hub—a logistical partner, strategic ally, and physical location—where hundreds of grassroots organizations and national allies gather, learn, and act together. Grounded in the belief that social change blooms from social movements rooted in community organizing, we bring together groups doing the most promising, cutting-edge organizing and movement-building to maximize their collective impact. Read more.

Building movements is about building community

In 2015, we trained hundreds of volunteer leaders through our economic justice, immigration, retirement security, civic engagement and housing partners to grow their ranks and lead their movements forward. These multi-generational, multi-ethnic leaders emerge from a wide variety of backgrounds, bringing with them a diverse set of skills. We build the field of community organizing by identifying what these leaders need to become powerful advocates for their communities. Read more.

We change policy, change the conversation, change lives

At the core of our mission is a belief that low-income people and people of color have the power to change for the better the institutions and policies that impact their lives. We bring groups together and build community leadership for the sake of this change, and in 2015 we saw the impacts of this work ripple out in the shifting consciousness of the country around issues of income and wealth inequality, structural racism and sexism, and the ways the economy and political system are rigged against our communities. Read more.

Amplifying the voices of impacted communities

When we launched our mass incarceration work in 2013, we saw that people who had lived through the trauma of incarceration—both those coming home and their families—were not getting the support they needed to shape solutions to the nation’s mass incarceration problem. We understood that these uncompromising voices had to be amplified to address the crisis of mass criminalization at a national scale. Read more.